One state, 2 days, 2 derailments, 2 railroads, all involving tank cars

[schlimm]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/2nd-train-derails-wisconsin-days-spills-crude-oil-35057709

 

[beaulieu]

A majority of the train cars on manifest trains on the CP route through Wisconsin are tank cars. Note that it was a crude oil tankcar that spilled but in the photograph there are derailed autoracks also. Lots of LPG, Anhydrous Ammonia, Soybean Oil, Canola Oil, Sunflower Oil, Corn Oil, Lard, Ethanol, and of course Crude Oil moving along the Twin Cities to Chicago corridor on both the BNSF and CP. Quite a bit of the crude oil moving over the CP has reverted to blocks in manifest trains with the downturn in crude from the Bakken Shale. Forgot to mention the carloads of High Fructose Corn Syrup.